Half to e



(No Model.)

R. H. BURWELL.

' WAGON HUB. No, 247,798. Patented Oct. 4,1881.

-JW i i Inventor. 25% t v w a ulu'mi u. wanna PhohUlhwripMr, Willlu'nglon. 0v 0.

UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT H. BURWELL, OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO E. K. FULTON AND PEYTON G. KING, OF SAME PLACE.

WAGON-HUB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,798, dated October 4, 1881.

Application filed June 6, 1881. (No model.)

thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in hubs adapted to all kinds and styles of vehicles and its objects are to furnish an article that combines a complete, compact, strong, and durable hub, and so adjusted in its several parts as to enable a common workman with ordinary tools to repair with little expense a wheel by inserting new spokes an d tightening the tire Without being heated or taken from the wheel. I also claim that my invention will save most of the incipient wear and tear of a wheel by the timely use of a hand-wrench. The nut E being virtually the key to the whole combination, an occasional turn of it will keep the spokes and all the parts of the hub firmly in their place, regardless of weather and ordinary exposure.

In the accompanying drawings,Figure 1 represents a sectional view of my invention at line y y in Fig. 2. Fig. 2 represents a sectional view at line 00 w in Fig. 1, Fig. 3, a View of the inner end, and Fig. 4c a view of the outside end.

A is a single block of wood, bored through the center to admit the axle-box D, its surface turned with shoulders at points indicated by A A at the inside end.

0, within its periphery, and made to fit closely upon the wooden part A, and to press against the spokes and close the mortises at their open ends. It is bolted to part B and held in position by four screw-bolts, 0

D is the axle-box, made of cast-iron or steel,

and in one piece, with a square head, and threads and a square tap,E, at the point. Its diameter should equal that of the bore in the wooden part A, and its square head fit snugly into the socket, thus keeping its position and revolving with the wheel. The tap E presses against the shoulder G, and when screwed up tight brings all the parts together compactly, and holds every spoke firmly in place.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a wagon-hub, the combination of the wooden part A, the spoke-band B, the band C, the screw-bolts G the axle-box D, and screwtap E, substantially as set forth and described.

2. In a hub for vehicles, the combination, with an axle-box, D, with a square head and thread and screw-tap, E, of the wooden part A, the spoke-band B, the band 0, and the screwbolts 0 substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT E. BURWELL.

Witnesses:

J OH W. WHITE, J. S. QUARLES. 

